Ah, yet, e’er I descend to th’ grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And a few Friends, and many Books both true
ABRAHAM COWLEYWhen Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty’s handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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The present is an eternal now.
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Nature waits upon thee still, And thy verdant cup does fill; ‘Tis fill’d wherever thou dost tread, Nature’s self’s thy Ganymede.
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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose,
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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
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Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
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The liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country.
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As for being much known by sight, and pointed out, I cannot comprehend the honor that lies withal; whatsoever it be, every mountebank has it more than the best doctor.
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:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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There Daphne’s Lover stopped, and thought it much The very leaves of her to touch: But Harvey, our Apollo, stopp’d not so; Into the Bark and Root he after her did go!
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.
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But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
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Thus would I double my life’s fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.
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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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